Silver Screen (May-Oct 1939)

winner in Virginia Grey, or Jo Ann Sayers, or Lana Turner. Virginia's a Hollywood girl, a daughter of a comedy director, who has been born and reared in the atmosphere of the picture business. She studied dancing as one of the famous Meglin kiddies, and has been playing bits in important pictures since she was nine. She has a Metro contract and has been showing such ability in her last pictures — she was one of the students in "Dramatic School" and one of the dancing girls in "Idiot's Delight" — that she's got a good chance now of stepping out there in front and winning the Glamour Girl race. Also, she's Dick Arlen's best girl friend. Jo Ann Sayers, whose real name is Miriam Lucille Lilygren, was elected Ski Queen at the University of Washington ice carnival in the winter of 1938. A talent scout saw her and asked her to come to Hollywood for a screen test. She came, she took the test, and she was put immediately into "Young Dr. Kildare." Since then Jo Ann has appeared in "Honolulu." "Huckleberry Finn" and "Four Girls in White." Maybe she'll be the winner. Red-headed Lana Turner, who comes as near being a Clara Bow as Hollywood has ever had the good fortune to have since the famous flapper married and settled down on her Nevada ranch, is a former Hollywood High School girl. After a test she was given a contract and the role of Mary Clay in "They Won't Forget." She was born in Wallace, Idaho, and is eighteen years old, and the most popular of the younger set in Hollywood— much to the despair of her studio bosses who are constantly lecturing her about too many night clubs. You saw Lana in "Love Finds Andy Hardy," "Rich Man, Poor Girl," and "Dramatic School." She has a red automobile that reminds The thing called glamour is so mysterious that it is immeasurable. Ann Sheridan is smouldering with the same allure that in days of old started Helen of Troy in the ship business. Perhaps Tennyson had a premonition of too much screen enticement when he wrote: " 'I am half sick of shadows,' said the Lady of Shallot." you of a fire department. Metro is very excited over Lana's future. She has plenty of that well known "S. A." And I don't mean South America. At the Paramount Stables we find two exciting entries, either of whom is likely to be a winner. Isa Miranda is ready to make her debut in her first American picture, "Hotel Imperial," which will be previewed any day now. And another Garbo may be acclaimed over night! Isa, who comes from Italy, was once hailed by the late Gabriele D'Annunzio as "The most glamorous woman in the world" — and after all D'Annunzio did know a thing or two about glamour. Isa's best known European picture is "The Lie of Nina Petrovna" in which she costarred with the attractive Fernand Gravet. When Paramount got a load of that they sent her a contract to sign and she has been in Hollywood ever since improving her English. From Paramount also comes Patricia Morrison who has been dubbed, by make-up expert Wally Westmore, as the only "blonde brunette" in Hollywood. According to Westmore, "Miss Morrison is a striking brunette with a brunette voice and a distinctly blonde personality." Well, that ought to lead to something. Patricia was born in New York twenty-one years ago and made her stage debut on Broadway last winter in "The Two Bouquets." Paramount [Continued on page 74] for May 1939 17